Time Team S07E05 hadrian's.wall,.birdoswald 

Absolutely one of my favourite parts too. After all, archaeology is much about reconstructing the past. Virtual time travel. And I love handling materials, or seeing people handle materials. Sch a concrete way to know the past.

Watching the early-mid '00s shows and he really got out of hand at times with the cutting remarks. He seems to have mellowed out a bit in later years!

WOW, I thought I was the only one thank you Ed.

i wonder though how much this was scripted speech? after all why would they otherwise be together for so many years? for money? for TV exposure? and i am sure many questions Tony asked and Mick replied to and explained, were for the benefit of the not regular viewer. for instance, everytime Time Team were around a - roman fort - they had the name - vicus - around.and every time it was explained. one also should not forget, Time Team is not only be viewed by Brit viewers who hopefully do know about their history. But also by -foreigners - who for instance never have heard about Hadrian's wall. or that one was built first of -sods - as Mick explained. and then a second time with stone. The only thing i know about the Romans in Britain, was from the - Asterix and Obelix - comics...

To be fair, Tony was basically the closest thing to a voice for the audience.

@@lafeelabriel As is many times happens when one has a bunch of , and for sure they were, Experts, who are getting carried away in their lingo. I am also sure Tony was asking many of these questions, over and over again, for the benefit of the viewer and especially for NEW viewers. Until i been watching TIME TEAM i never have head - Samian Ware-. And was and i am still amazed, what those archaeologists can tell from a little piece of shard. But those people tend to get carried away in their field. And for THAT Tony Robinson was there. He was the -showman - with his flailing arms and - Time Team has only 3 Das to find out - . Even when we know by now that it sometimes took weeks or month to to the prep work and clean up before and after each episodes. I still remember what - flak- he got from Phil, when, not knowing better, Tony jumped into a -dig - without -asking - first for -permission -. Only NOW i do understand, why it is like that. And actually why it HAS to be like that... Now it is SIR Tony Robinson, he is back with the TIME TEAM, many of the -old - team are still there. And i am looking forward to his - TIME TEAM has just 3 days to find out-.

Oh thanks, I thought she meant me…

That's wonderful. Brings it home to all of us. Thank you!

25 years. And Roman soldiers moved.

Tony later did a program called Britain' Ancient Tracks. During one episode he visited Avery, which has the world 's largest stone circle. Some of the stones are missing, built into newer buildings, including the local historical heritage office.

He didn’t coin the damn phrase. He also didn’t walk on water. All he did was take credit for the work of others to aggrandize himself.

@@Invictus13666 YOU are probably a sad little man. 666 is merely Roman Numerals added up. NO M 2000 years ago for 1000...D=500 C=100 L=50 X=10 V=5 and I=1=666 genius.

@@Thoth_al_Khem 😂 sure thing honey.

@@Invictus13666 Yes. That's why Aston mentions, "That's what [unintelligible] taught me at university." He *always* credits his teachers and mentors. Without fail. He never claimed to have coined the phrase. In fact, he misquotes it, and calls himself on it later.

@@haplessasshole9615 not always, no. But you have your fantasy world-I like reality.

Thank you Marc it's a great pleasure to be English with such a great heritage

It is remarkable, isn't it. Makes you ponder how generations hence aspects of this time will appear to archaeologists of the future.

SlyPearTree yes, well they need a limit to limit the expence of it. But a workweek of 5 or six days with representation on sundays might have given some really interesting extra informations on the larger sites.

They kind of explained the 3-day limit early in the series. They are more an "Advance Team". They will do as much research as they can (these individuals do have real lives, jobs and bills. This wouldn't be a full-time job; even longer Archaeology Digs must break for weather, or even for additional funding. As Mick has stated "Archeology is distructive ...". By their taking notes and recording their finds over 3 days they provide invaluable information for future digs.

yes...its not needed

@@royfr8136 I disagree, it gives a sense of urgency to the viewer. For example, 37:15 is this show at its best: They "run up" to a trench because someone has found something. Taking a look at it, they slowly realize, with the viewer, the... possibly erotic nature of it. Then, as soon as they were figuring it out, someone starts shouting to get their attention. Because they only have 3 days, they HAVE to run across the field to another trench. At 37:43, while running, he literally interviews one of the archaeologists: "Could that be.... pornographic?" "It could be, yes, indeed, we have to look at it carefully before we can make a decision on that one" and then he CONINUES TO INTERVIEW HER while they ran over and he then proceeded to interview another archaeologist about this next find. All 1 cut. I LMAOffed for 5 mins before collecting myself to write this comment. You want people to be interested in archaeology? THIS is how you gotta do it. Pure TV gold imo.

It seems to be basic TV production formula to have drama built into the format of these shows. For instance, I don't think I've ever seen a deep sea shipwreck exploration show where there wasn't a storm threatening the operation, or some manufactured drama to heighten viewer interest.

RIP

@@wunty8332 luck kkkkkkkko

He draws gaudy stick figures. Zero talent. Way rto be brainwashed.

Steve Veasey Lucky you.

There is no such thing as bad weather, just wrong clothing. 😂😜☀️🌈 🌧

@@lauravalancy2521r you British ?

No, the quadriga was one of the chariots commonly used in the circus races; and indeed, appears to have been the most popular

All the team had other jobs in archæology, digs are mostly rescue digs or evaluation digs and the programme was _very_ expensive.

+notwocdivad how man dinnit gan fighting with them romans

+kha sab Hoymehammaowerheremarra am mekkin a sheeld.

lol

Gannin doon toon marra?

It was very kind of the Romans to build a wall to cage themselves in. Stopped them from ruining proper civilisation in Scotland.

Check out "Ask a Mortician" channel on You Tube. Caitlyn Doherty is a comedian.🤭

@@celticman1909 she's awesome

@@meemurthelemur4811 Yeah, she is. I like her very much, and she calls us "Deathlings" and "Death enthusiasts." How wild is that?

@@celticman1909 yes, she does such a great job of making it socially acceptable to be a death enthusiast. And her topics are always so interesting too.

15:29 Great jacket too.

It is amazing, when i first found time team, i assumed they considered a site made travel plans to go there and dig. But much more involved with making those scientific plans, submitting those plans, submitting the ultimate goals, getting all the required paperwork through english heritage or the local archaelogical societies and as well visiting the site. All this is done weeks if not months in advance of time team even going to a site. A lot involved in just one 48 minute episode lol.

It's our heroic charisma keeps us warm 😊

Really? A comment about dating an ancient coin for info being compared to a sad modern dating tradition is just pathetic. I know it was an attempt at humor, IMHO, it fell short.

Lighten up.

Of course they don’t come back, they’ll always be roamin’. That’s ok, some of them are two-faced, their personalities are flat and their reasoning is circular.

Oh look, it’s Party Pooper Patty.

@Rosida Andriyana Humor and humour are both correct, depending on regional dialect.

Check out the early wall it's a huge geological feature stretching for miles

By the way, 😮you said really nothing other than you like authentic titles

+Bambi Harris What is considered to be acceptable is dictated by the dominant section of society of the time. Shame of one's own body is relatively new, in a historic sense, and I believe can be traced back to Abrahamic Theology.

Tom Palfrey Your turn in the barrel.

I thought about that when studying ancient Greeks and spartan warriors, they were nude together often, and was very close, to the point of sexuality, but wasn't such thing as the terms of being gay, lesbians and gender roles so it was a unique and not talked about much but eluded to in popular movies such as sexual bond with young men being trained by their master teachers in arts of warfare.

@@2l84t The Victorians were easily the biggest censors of familiar and foreign culture

Not hilarious. We call that "rude" on this side of the pond.

he's downright Horatio Cain sometimes

he was just out of the camera lens and taking the log to put it on the pile, not walking away to oblivion!...jeees you guys has never seen this show before or what? I would actually do the same, while listening to her i will still do my works. They need to work fast for this show they only got 3 days and cant dilly dally, while listening he went to get the log just around the corner where the camera cant see.

Will Law 😂😂😂

Great point, also if you survived the 25 years service you got a plaque called a diploma hence that's where we get the name from, fun fact :)

Imagine joining the roman army back in the day. 25 years is so long!

@@basstrammel1322 Today we only have to work 45 years before retiring to a little bungalow in the country. Progress!

@@Ijusthopeitsquick unless you’re an American and your retirement money has been savaged by Biden.

Can I bring my jack hammer so i can take some wall down for my back garden plz

Who cares?!?

The government official is also a roman era specialist that Time Team have used before as a consultant on Roman sites elsewhere in the UK and as the person responsible for excavation on the site in the long term wants a couple of questions answered as to how quickly he needs to excavate the graveyard area (low priority it’s not falling down the hill and has suffered a lot of plough damage before the area was protected) and what exists outside his core area (which will have had him drafting grant applications). This is very much beginning not ending investigation of those areas and that they have been asked to do it is a sign the professional archeological community was beginning to take the show seriously and see what it could contribute to long term investigations.

Scipio_Africanus, that’d be more expensive though 😢

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Season 7. As Reijer so helpfully tells us. I realize reading can be difficult but do try, yes duckie?

Show ended in 2014

What in the hotel?????

it seems more trees have been planted on the escarpment to help avoid further erosion

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing

@@marionlesage4794 I think that Romanian , Prislop' is basically ,pri'( on,above)+ English ,slope' because there are more similar words like ,slide', sleep' sled, etc.

Neptune, there? Dope.

I know what your saying, i live in va in mountains, we have real dirt, soil so black full of nutrients like a rain forest. I lived in GA for years as well, and that red clay was hell, i still have golf shoes stained with it from years ago. Everybody's houses have red stains from mud slung on from rain, and you walk or run across it wet it will break your neck in the slimy shit.

Shablé I live in GA currently and yes amending the soil here takes years to do. I look at the soil on time team and I am jealous as a gardener

i thought Antoine wall was built first but smaller but then they move and build the bigger Hadrian's?

Yes, I noticed that too. They don't look anything like each other, and if you've watched episodes from this season you'd know Dr. Butterworth's voice. This is the first episode where I've seen Katie Hirst. Her voice is lower-pitched than Dr. B's.

*Doohan.*

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Scotty

@@cmdrtianyilin8107 Have you seen his son in *_Star Trek Continues?_*

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 not yet.

@@cmdrtianyilin8107 You'll find all episodes, etc., on YT. It's not actually great but it's very good. The first episode has *Michael Forest* reprising his original rôle as *_Apollo_* from *_TOS_* _decades_ later.

Well, in theory moving a river is......

Actually mostly they don't - but it's not exactly unknown.

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That was the cunning plan...

Are u trying to say he's Sol Invictus ahahha

Calin Cimpianu Mo

Calin Cimpianu Mol

Ah. Modern day Romania where one of Vlad the Impaler's castles is at Sighișoara. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula based on this blood thirsty ruler.

Also Dacorum district in London named after them.

Look of a dog to me.....

@Urien Rheged Illegal metal detecting within the World Heritage Site is apparently quite a problem.

No, there was just nothing needed further north. They invaded England for the farm land.

It was because the archaeologists all had full-time jobs and they could only do these digs on weekends.

Ah...thanks so much for the information. It's a great show, and not just because of the lovely locations. @@JulianneTure

chris lake I know, but it is said the other way. That there has been no roman military burial place excavated in Britain. Just watch a second time.

***** No his words are "no cemetery on Hadrian's wall's ever been excavated". 2:50

***** Was cremation preferred over inhumation?

Theban Ned Greenman, they said that, yeah

All the team had other jobs in archæology, digs are mostly rescue digs or evaluation digs and the programme was _very_ expensive.

yup... previous to that ..Colchester was the capital. They even found a Roman circus buried there .

@@00BillyTorontoBill yes I lived there at the time it was discovered.Colchester,or Camuludonium in Roman times,is the oldest recorded town in England.there is so much history there,Norman,Saxon,Roman,witch trials in tje castle. the nursery rhyme'Humpty dumpty originates there,humpty dumpty referring to cannons falling of the walls.so many historical sites there...

525Lines It used to be much higher and consisted entirely of stone with garrisoned towers or ‘milecastles’ every Roman mile. The stone surface of the wall was also whitewashed so it would have reflected light and shone white like a beacon for miles around, as a symbol of Roman power and prestige. The sorry state of the wall at the moment is due to general wear and tear over the centuries, especially the scavenging of stones by locals for their own homes and building projects.

@@dreamer2260 the western half of the wall was turf not stone.

Martyn Notman When first built yes, but it was then rebuilt in stone.

“heaven” not Heaven. Don’t be racist.

@@Invictus13666 whatever, dude. I dont see how what I said had anything to do with racism... but ok...

@janis vogel both?

The island called *Great Britain* existed and the *Romans* knew it as *Britannia.* Your question is not stupid at all, whatever other posters say. If you don't know something and want to then ask. It's not a sin _not_ to be omniscient. I can remember when I had no idea of *Britain* at all - and I lived in *Britain* then as now. I have just learnt that amongst a few other things in the sixty+ years since then.

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 you lived in Britain and had no concept of Britain? I hope you were three.

Like this won't hurt

You bet they did. That bit of scraping and looking around was done for the audience. Don't forget, the dig is 72 hours and the show is just 45 min. Most of what is done, is done off camera and only highlights are shown or played out for the audience.

Yeah. Half wish these vids were longer tho.

CologneCarter The majority of the digs continued long after the cameras left as well. It's said that during the run of the show Time Team alone published more scholarly reports than every other British University combined during that 20 year run. That is a lot of work and obviously required more than 72 hours of effort on each dig.

CompetitiveAudio I am aware of that.

CologneCarter I assumed you did and maybe I should have no replied directly to you. There are a lot of people who actually assume it's over when the cameras stop. My apologies if I offended it was not meant badly at all.

Maybe he forgot to pack his razor!

Actually, he was doing Blackadder Back and Forth at the same time. He was limited to whatever sleep he could get while being driven between the two locations. He is probably just tired.

Katie is very fit. Do you mean Jen the bicycle?

Not totally. All the team had other jobs in archæology, digs are mostly rescue digs or evaluation digs and the programme was _very_ expensive.

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Well, I think it's more to do with drama.... I;m sure they can afford it...All the running is scripted and staged... That helicopter wasn't really needed....

@@royfr8136 No, they couldn't afford any longer. It was an extremely expensive production though the archæologists themselves were rather poorly paid.

@@royfr8136 actually the helicopter was extremely important-crop marks in other fields etc. And it wasn’t drama. It was because everyone had jobs-and to keep interest. Don’t ascribe History Channel bs to 30 year old Brit tv.

Not every viewer of an episode has seen all of the preceding episodes, nor are they all familiar with latin terminology. It's a TV series for a general audience.

I'm sure he got sick of it! There's no way he couldn't have learned loads over the years; I'm sure he became a talented amateur archaeologist in his own right. I recently watched an episode about 15 years in, where he asked if iron age houses are round and Roman houses have corners (are rectangular.) It's kind of funny if you don't assume he's asking for the audience. It would be like he had amnesia between each episode. 😂 It's also funny how everyone just answers him like he didn't just ask a question he's asked ten times every year. It would be hard to not answer in a sarcastic way after answering the same question for the hundredth time from Tony. I'm sure the production team reminds everyone that any episode could be a viewer's first, so they have to keep all that base knowledge in no matter how many seasons they've done.

Jenny gets plenty of time. They tried to groom her into carenza lite but it didn’t work. She had to leave the show ...she was the designated bicycle and wore out her welcome